Alberta Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux says he’s resigning as a member of Parliament, but Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the resignation won’t come into effect until “next spring.” “I ran in the last election hopeful that Canadians would put faith in a team led by Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, offering a chance to change Canada’s perception in our own country and...
Alberta’s premier hopes to make a deal before Grey Cup. The Alberta and federal governments are in negotiations to sign a major accord that could reset their relationship. Both sides have said the aim of the talks is to sign a formal memorandum of understanding (MOU). The Alberta premier’s office has said they hope to ink the deal before the...
Liberals will need co-operation of one of the opposition parties to pass budget. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government was elected just a few seats shy of a majority, meaning the Liberals will need the co-operation of one of the opposition parties to pass their budget. The budget is considered a confidence vote, meaning the government will fall if it fails...
Statistics Canada says the economy added 67,000 jobs in October, blowing past economists’ labour market expectations for a second month in a row. Those job gains were concentrated in part-time work while the private sector saw employment grow for the first time since June.
U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra is facing internal criticism over his management of the Michigan Republican Party before he took up his duties as Donald Trump’s voice in Canada. Some Republicans, including the current chair of the Michigan GOP, say Mr. Hoekstra left the party saddled with a US$1-million debt.
A few months after the last federal election, Leger conducted a survey on behalf of Postmedia to assess federal voting intentions, satisfaction with the Carney government, and public sentiment on key national issues.
Very few Canadians look fondly at the current President of the United States, a new Research Co. poll has found. In the online survey of a representative national sample, only 18% of Canadians have a favourable opinion of Donald Trump, while just over three-in-four (76%) hold unfavourable views. Positive views on Trump reach 21% in Alberta and 20% in Ontario...
The first thing to know about last week’s floor crossing is that everybody likes Chris d’Entremont, an easy-going Acadian from Yarmouth, a fishing town on the southwestern end of Nova Scotia, across the Bay of Fundy from Maine. He’s a natural politician — calm, low key and pleasant — a good MP for Acadie-Annapolis, which he has represented since he...
Most Canadians say Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has fallen short on its campaign promises, even as his overall satisfaction and approval ratings edge upward, a new Postmedia-Leger poll finds. Article content “There’s a lot of things to like about Mr. Carney’s experience and credentials that people gravitated to during the election and hold true now,” said Leger executive vice-president...
The federal government plans to make 75 legislative changes through the budget process, adopting a practice that has been criticized as a way of curtailing debate by burying contentious measures in omnibus bills.
There are moments in a city’s history when its resilience is tested — when decisions made in distant boardrooms send shockwaves through our streets, homes, and hearts. Stellantis’ announcement to end production of the Jeep Compass at Brampton’s Assembly Plant is one such moment, threatening the livelihoods of 3,000 workers and shaking our community.
For centuries, alchemists promised and failed to turn lead into gold. What is most astounding is that even after each debunking, these charlatans would repackage their discredited schemes as something new with fresh jargon and different salesmen, luring wave after wave of hopeful dupes eager for golden miracles. Instead of promising to turn lead into gold, today’s alchemist-in-chief, Mark Carney...
Canada's official leader of the opposition has finally come up with an auto industry policy—and it’s a complete dud! Lost in all the fuss that was the Liberals’ “generational” budget this week was that the leader of the official opposition, Pierre Poilievre, finally unveiled something bordering on automotive industry policy. As always — because Mr. Poilievre is nothing if not...
In a Budget-Day twist, the member of Parliament for Acadie-Annapolis in Nova Scotia, Chris d’Entremont, announced his decision to leave the Conservative caucus and cross the floor of the House of Commons to join the Liberal government. In the world of zero-sum politics, this was obviously a big win for Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals — on Budget...
With Canada facing a slew of challenges, the Carney government promised a budget that would “swing for the fences” — one that would make generational investments to build, protect and empower Canada. To do so, the budget outlines an industrial strategy focused largely on infrastructure and boosting business productivity and competitiveness. It hits a lot of the right notes with...
The news junkies who tend to drive political chatter have come away disappointed after Mark Carney’s first budget this week. They (OK, we) were underwhelmed — there were no surprises, the budget was pretty much as advertised, and the previously-touted big sacrifices at the altar of economic overhaul were things we already knew were coming.
A friend and fellow lobbyist recently wrote, in an eloquent defence of our line of work, that “Ottawa is a foreign country” to most Canadians — and certainly most people trying to make a go of it, building a business or running a canola farm. That sense of how foreign this town can seem rarely hits as hard as it...
There’s really only one question I want answered by this week’s federal budget: is Canada really going to use this generational crisis with the U.S. to address our systemic spending sprees and economic malaise — or was “Elbows Up” really just a s—t excuse to further enrich and coddle the cultural and corporate oligarchs who have spent the last 1...
Most people covering Mark Carney’s first budget are understandably focused on the big-ticket items, whether it’s the massive funding commitments to new economic infrastructure or the cuts being used to help pay for them. I’m more interested in a line buried on Page 220, under the heading “Improving the Efficiency of the Tax System,” that declares the government’s intention to...
Two days after he was sworn-in as prime minister, Justin Trudeau arrived at the Lester B. Pearson Building in Ottawa to a crowd of cheering public servants. The unusual scene in the lobby of the Foreign Affairs Department was described as a “rock-star reception,” one that, for some, confirmed Liberal sympathies within the public service; and for others were an...
The Carney government has acted as promised, presenting a budget that will change the way both the federal and provincial governments operate in Canada and boosting private-sector economic opportunities. What is not certain is that it will protect Canada from the devastating, capricious tariffs that President Donald Trump has imposed on the country and could add to or increase in...
Mark Carney may have to do another prime-time TV address. Two weeks ago, the prime minister warned the nation of sacrifices to come in the big budget his government unveiled on Tuesday. But which Canadians will be feeling those sacrifices — beyond the public servants whose jobs will be cut — remains a story still untold.
When you have been calling for something for years and it finally turns up, it’s churlish to nitpick. So, I won’t. Article content The 2025 federal budget is clearly not a one-and-done exercise. It will take more than a single document to compensate for a decade of mismanagement — and it will be judged years from now on its results...
The Carney government’s first budget is being sold as “generational.” As the economic plan’s central metaphor, it might be spot on. But for young people, the takeaway may not be what the government hopes for.
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled Budget 2025 on November 4th, 2025. Given the spring election and the government’s commitment to change the financial cycle by tabling budgets in the fall, Parliament and Canadians are getting two budgets in one (2025 and 2026). Margaret Atwood has said that the difficulty of managing from the center is that you get attacked from...
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was thoroughly outfoxed last week. Her adversary Thomas Lukaszuk, a former conservative deputy premier, handed his “Forever Canadian” petition to Elections Alberta, signed by more than 456,000 Albertans expressing their desire to stick with Canada.
"Generational" is the Carney government's adjective of choice at this moment of consequence. The word appeared 11 times in the prepared text of François Philippe-Champagne's budget speech and another 45 times in the 493-page budget document.
In the words of the celebrated economist Peggy Lee: Is that all there is? Has there been a budget that was preceded by more breathless hype than this one? It was to be a budget full of “generational investments” that would “swing for the fences” and “define our next century.” On the other hand, it would also be full of...
Touting his One Big Beautiful Bill Act in June, President Donald Trump declared America “the hottest country in the world.” With its smörgåsbord of tax cuts and tax incentives to go with America’s sky-high trade barriers, at its core were the White House’s dreams of a manufacturing renaissance.
Canada’s young people are falling behind. According to Statistics Canada, the unemployment rate for those aged 15 to 24 sits at 14.2 per cent, more than double the national average. The unemployment rate among youth attending school is 17.1 per cent, up 3.1 percentage points from last September. Among those youth who are working, many are under-employed, bouncing between short-term...
The guy standing behind Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in the news conference (his public safety critic, Frank Caputo) bore a profoundly unsettling, heavyset resemblance to Trump acolyte Stephen Miller, a similarity that distracted me briefly from Poilievre’s remarks until I heard his outrageous claim that Prime Minister Mark Carney first approved Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s tariff ad and then torpedoed...
There seems to be a major rift forming between the hit ‘em back attitude of Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s newfound “get clocked in the face for the greater good” approach. After the Trump administration spent the better part of last week and a bit complaining about an ad paid for by the Ontario government that...
So it turns out we really are those people, the ones who say “sorry” when someone steps on our foot, the ones who can’t stop apologizing when we’ve done something wrong or even — especially, really — when we haven’t. Prime Minister Mark Carney said over the weekend that he apologized to Donald Trump for those Ontario TV ads that...
The minority Liberal government has survived the first of three confidence tests on its federal budget.
The federal budget’s $1.7-billion investment to hire 1,000 RCMP personnel is being met with optimism from the union and the RCMP advisory board, but the chair says meeting that pledge will require “iconoclastic ideas” from leadership as the force faces an officer vacancy rate that nearly doubles the numbers the government is tasking them with hiring in the coming years.
Quebec Conservative MP Gerard Deltell says no other Conservative elected official will succumb to Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal charm offensive. Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont sent shock waves through the political world on Tuesday when he announced he was leaving the federal Conservatives to join the Liberals and support their budget.
Canada’s top banker says he’s hopeful the new Liberal budget will encourage business investment and stimulate the economy. “I think there is a significant change in this budget,” Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem told senators on the Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and the Economy on Thursday. “The government is very clearly reducing their operating expenditures, putting more of...
The minority Liberal government appears poised to survive the first of three confidence tests on its budget, with the NDP and Bloc Quebecois declaring Thursday that they will not vote with the Conservatives on an amendment. "The Conservatives want massive cuts to public spending. That's exactly the opposite direction that New Democrats think we need to go in," interim NDP...
The first confidence vote connected to Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne’s 2025 federal budget will take place in the House of Commons on Thursday night. Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon’s office confirmed to CTV News that the Liberals are treating both the Conservative sub-amendment, and the Bloc Quebecois amendment to the main motion seeking approval for the budget, as matters of...
The Commissioner of Canada Elections says it fined Nova Scotia Liberal MP Jaime Battiste $600 for a series of elections law violations -- including his donation of funds to his own campaign that went almost $1,500 over the legal limit. Battiste, who currently serves as parliamentary secretary to the minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, sought the party leadership earlier this year...
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it will move forward with "complete depopulation" of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm after the owners lost a bid to have their case heard by the Supreme Court of Canada. The agency says it has respected all orders of the courts and expects the farm's owners and its supporters to do...
It all started with an avian flu outbreak last winter on a small British Columbia ostrich farm. The beleaguered flock’s brush with disaster has now spiraled into a national standoff over science and personal freedoms. And it’s one that extends beyond Canada, as top Trump administration health officials have become personally involved.
Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont surprised many on Tuesday when he left the Conservative caucus to join the Liberals, bringing the government caucus to within two votes of a majority. While switching parties between elections -- a practice known as floor crossing referring to physically crossing the floor of the House of Commons to sit with a different caucus --...
Canada’s chaotic minority Parliament is at a critical juncture as Mark Carney’s Liberals scramble to lure more Opposition floor-crossers to secure support for the budget’s passage, and the Conservatives, reeling at Tuesday’s loss of an MP, struggle to frame themselves as the government-in-waiting. Political tribalism and parliamentary shenanigans were on display all day, starting first thing Wednesday morning when a...
One expert says she is cautiously optimistic that the latest federal budget will spur business investment in Canada that will support growth and productivity. Prime Minister Mark Carney's first federal budget looks to make Canada's economy a more attractive place to invest, with billions of dollars for infrastructure and new tax opportunities for business.
Canada's premiers are too quick to use the notwithstanding clause for "marginal reasons" and have lost sight of its original purpose, former prime minister Jean Chretien said Wednesday evening. Chretien, who as justice minister negotiated the clause's inclusion in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1981, said provinces are using it "for anything" 40 years later. "It was not...
Some MPs will have to decide if the sweeteners merit letting the budget pass. Prime Minister Mark Carney insists the federal budget was crafted to contain a number of measures championed by MPs from other parties, and that those olive branches will become apparent in the coming days. With one MP already crossing the floor to join the Liberals, Carney...
The Context host Annette Goerner sits down with Pierre Petelle, CEO of CropLife Canada to discuss unlocking the economic potential of Canada's food science and agriculture sector.
The Liberals are pursuing other Conservative MPs to cross the floor after Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont stunned Conservatives by joining Mark Carney’s caucus. Two Liberal sources say the minority government has been in discussions with a number of Conservative MPs to gauge their willingness to either cross or sit as independents before a vote is held on the federal...
Kamloops-area MPs Frank Caputo and Mel Arnold are refusing to offer their thoughts about Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre’s recent accusation that Mounties covered up crimes committed by former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and his fellow Liberal MPs said Wednesday the party is open to talking to any opposition MPs interested in joining their team -- a day after Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont quit the Conservatives to join the government caucus. Carney and d'Entremont were met with thunderous applause and cheers as they walked side by side into...
Ontario’s opposition parties are questioning the province’s labour minister about the possibility money from the $2.5 billion Skills Development Fund ended up at a company tied to an “adult entertainment venue.” Records viewed by CTV News show connections between an organization that received under $10 million in grants from the labour ministry and the operator of a new nightclub on...
Prime Minister Mark Carney gave no indication trade talks with the United States will resume any time soon, despite apologizing to U.S. President Donald Trump who abruptly ended negotiations over an ad campaign.
Canada's federal public service unions vowed on Wednesday to "fight" planned job cuts, arguing they will undermine services for Canadians. Tuesday's federal budget outlined a plan to lower program spending and administration costs by about $60 billion over the next five years. It also says the government intends to have 10 per cent fewer federal employees by 2029 -- a...
The federal budget includes considerable cuts to the justice system. While the Canadian Bar Association is hoping to learn more about what they mean in concrete terms, at first glance, they’re “concerning.”
The Bank of Canada is planning to eliminate hundreds of jobs, about 10% of its workforce, as part of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s bid to reduce government expenses. About 225 employees at the central bank will be affected, according to a memo seen by Bloomberg News. The cuts will take place “over the next few months” and be completed by...
OTTAWA -- The federal budget is a "bold response" to meet a crucial moment of global trade disruption, deep divisions and accelerating technological change, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday as he began the task of selling the first government budget tabled under his watch.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump's key tool for deploying tariffs faces a critical legal test in the Supreme Court -- one which could upend his plans to realign global trade.
Floor-crossing MP says he wasn't aligned with Conservative leader anymore, felt he was too negative. Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont said Wednesday he left the Conservative caucus because he didn't feel represented in leader Pierre Poilievre's party anymore and bristled at his "negative" approach to politics. D'Entremont said there are other Conservative MPs who "are in the same boat" and...
Prime Minister Mark Carney publicly welcomed Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont to his Liberal caucus Wednesday morning, thanking him for his decision to cross the floor, bringing the minority government one vote closer to a majority. “I’m honored to welcome him as the newest member of our government caucus,” Carney said, at an announcement at a public transit facility in...
Canada's top bureaucrat is warning the budget's spending reduction target is a "big number" that will mean cuts to programs and jobs in the public service. Tuesday's federal budget outlined a plan to lower program spending and administration costs by about $60 billion over the next five years.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Republican U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik is running for governor of New York, her campaign announced Friday.
U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra is facing internal criticism over his management of the Michigan Republican Party before he took up his duties as Donald Trump’s voice in Canada. Some Republicans, including the current chair of the Michigan GOP, say Mr. Hoekstra left the party saddled with a US$1-million debt.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Republicans voted to reject legislation Thursday that would have put a check on President Donald Trump's ability to launch an attack against Venezuela, as Democrats pressed Congress to take a stronger role in Trump's high-stakes campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection to the U.S. House, bringing to a close her storied career as not only the first woman in the speaker's office but arguably the most powerful in American politics.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Microsoft said Monday it will be shipping Nvidia's most advanced artificial intelligence chips to the United Arab Emirates as part of a deal approved by the U.S. Commerce Department.
Continued staffing shortages in air traffic control facilities around the country were again causing delays at airports on Friday as the government shutdown neared the one-month mark.
China has agreed to purchase 25 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans annually as part of an agreement reached by its leaders, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday.
President Donald Trump's meeting Thursday with China's top leader Xi Jinping produced a raft of decisions to help dial back trade tensions, but no agreement on TikTok's ownership.
President Donald Trump said he has made deals with China after meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, the final day of a trip to Asia that was an opportunity for the leaders of the world's two largest economies to stabilize relations after months of turmoil over trade issues.
The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada held its inaugural Indo-Pacific Forum in Ottawa on October 1- 2, 2025, nearly three years after the launch of Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy (IPS). The Forum brought together stakeholders from the Government of Canada, academics, think-tank experts, private-sector leaders, and policy researchers from across the Indo-Pacific to assess progress and offer actionable advice on how...
The 47th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit and Related Meetings, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 26-28, showcased both the bloc’s diplomatic strengths and its strategic vulnerabilities. U.S. President Donald Trump’s attendance dominated the proceedings, and featured the signing of legally binding trade agreements with Malaysia and Cambodia, framework arrangements with Thailand and Vietnam, and memoranda of understanding...
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Pierre Poilievre’s recent video attacking Mark Carney could have been a strong argument. If not for the air quotes. When he says Carney promised he could “handle Trump” and “negotiate a win,” his fingers twitch into the familiar inverted-comma gesture. It’s a tiny move, but it says everything. Air quotes don’t persuade; they perform. They turn conviction into commentary and...
As Prime Minister Mark Carney said, “Donald Trump wants to break us so America can own us.” But what if Trump decides to use military power along with economic tariffs? An Arctic expert writing in The Globe and Mail says we shouldn’t think of tanks or helicopters streaming over the border. Instead, an American show-of-force could begin with a single...
I am very worried that Canada is sleepwalking into potentially the most dangerous military project since the atom bomb. Trump’s Golden Dome will put thousands of weapons in space – one of the few places where there are no weapons today – and lock us into a new Cold War with Russia and China that will rob our children and...
At Issue this week: Questions surface about Pierre Poilievre’s leadership after one Conservative MP crosses the floor and another resigns. Prime Minister Mark Carney looks for the votes to support his federal budget. And Canada’s plan to slash immigration levels.
Ottawa is abuzz after Conservative MP Chris d'Entremont crossed the floor Tuesday — and suddenly an outright majority for Prime Minister Mark Carney looks within reach. On this week's show, hosts Nick Taylor-Vaisey and Mickey Djuric break down the latest from Ottawa and beyond, including Carney’s efforts to recruit more floor-crossers; the next chapter in British Columbia’s ostrich saga; and...
In this episode of Hub Politics, host Sean Speer is joined by Amanda Galbraith, co-founder and president of Oyster Group, and David Coletto, founder and CEO of Abacus Data, to discuss the Carney government's first budget and the dramatic floor-crossing that overshadowed its release. They debated whether the budget's focus on macroeconomic growth and productivity over immediate household relief was...
For more than a decade, Canada’s condo boom was on. Investors, at home and abroad, drove the craze over reselling preconstruction units. Rents skyrocketed, all while the condos themselves shrank in size. Today, the bubble has burst and the housing crisis continues. New condo sales in markets like Toronto and Hamilton are at 35-year lows and prices are driving potential...
